[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I do not think the schools should be teaching tolerance by singling out deviant behavior to tolerate. Be general if you must, but don't include immoral behavior in your list of things to tolerate. That's just stupid. Given the stats on childhood sexual abuse, I don't think sexual anything should be included in the list of things to tolerate. You're just setting a kid up to be even more vulnerable.

[OpusatFR]

This is about respect. The Parker's have respectfully asked to be notified and the school has disrepectfully created an atmosphere of untenable hostility toward them.

I do respect the rights of the school to indoctrinate the students in any way they wish but not at the expense of deeply held religious beliefs.

When I last checked, the Freedom Of Religion is, for the moment at least, still enumerated whereas the indoctrination of children into an "other" form of family in the face of one's deeply held religious belief is not..

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Why don't they teach tolerance for cheating, smoking, drug abuse, illiteracy, litter-bugs, non-recyclers, political conservatives, etc? Why? Because they would never included something on the list that they thought of as negative or bad. That's really the point. Homosexuality is named because they want to teach acceptance.

My brother is an alcoholic and no one is teaching school children to be tolerant of that. What a bunch of bigots.

[arthurus]

Why do these people still have their child in pubblic school?

[arthurus]

Why do these people still have their child in pubblic school?

[nothingnew]

The Parkers believed the public school, Estabrook, is right to be teaching tolerance of gays but wrong in raising the subject in kindergarten and then indoctrinating 5-year-olds on gay marriage.

Sorry Parkers...they "gay" agenda will only be satisfied when you promote the bone dance with Mr. Sphincter for five year olds. Until then you are SOL.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Morgan in Denver]

In this day and age of political correctness, and the broadening definition of child molestation, the school officials should all be arrested for child abuse and distributing pornography to minors. It is also a hate crime. Nothing less is acceptable. It's for the children......

[layman]

kindergarten

Kindergarten? What ever happened to finger painting, recess, story time, and crackers and milk before nap time? C'mon NEA.... these kids are five-years old! Get a friggin' grip!

[MNJohnnie]

red flag when their son came home from kindergarten last January with a "diversity book bag" that included Who ' s in a Family, a book promoting acceptance of gay marriage

Gee I wonder what would happen is Suzy Suburganite came home from her kindergarden to her Movon.ore Mommy with a "Freedom bag" full of stuff from the NRA and Free Republic etc? Sorry but the double standard here is sickening. Conservatives have got to quit playing nice with these School Districts, THEY PAY FOR, wasting time and money on this Leftst political indoctrination crap.

[nmh]

Considering how test scores are down even though tests are easier ... I think they need to concentrate on reading, math and arithmetic in Kindergarten not neutralizing perversion.